English 8 students continued their research projects. We were applying our notetaking and summarizing skills we learned and practiced yesterday to their actual research. English I students worked on...
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What our classroom did in previous days, weeks, months, even years…
Opening Scene and Initial Research
Researching and reading
Prologue and Inquiry Questions
English I students began the centerpiece of the whole year's curriculum: Romeo and Juliet. We began with the prologue, looking for some patterns and repetitions as well as a few surprises. Much to...
Logic and Research
English 8 students, having recently completed a short unit on text structures, are taking these two days to beef up their critical thinking/reading skills. We're working on logic puzzles to that...
The Main Idea about Adjectival and Adverbial Phrasal Research
Adjectives, adverbs, and main ideas — oh my!
Prepositional Phrases, Research Questions, and Development
Developing and researching
Monomyth and Central Idea
English I students worked on the monomyth from Joseph Campbell's The Hero with A Thousand Faces. We only made it through the first three stages of the hero's journey: Call to adventure Refusal of...
Hidden Calypso and Autism
English I students finished a two-day analysis project in which they looked at the role allusions can play in the development of an artistic creation: The Police song "Wrapped Around Your Finger."...
Main Idea and Heroism
Michaela’s Odyssey
Homeric Text Structures
English 8 students finished up text structures with a light game of game-play: a Gimkit and a Kahoot. Virtually everyone demonstrated that they have mastered text structure identification. English I...
Finishing Text Structures and Calypso
Calypso and text structures
Odyssey and Text Structures
Text structures and the Odyssey
